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The Daily Dispatch: June 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], What a Deserter says. (search)
What a Deserter says.
The Lynchburg Republican, of Monday, relates the following:
A deserter from the Yankee army of McDowell at Fredericksburg, is now here under guard.
He belonged to King's division, and states that they were on the march to Richmond, and had gotten some eight or ten miles from Fredericksburg, when the news of Banks's rout by old Stonewall came upon them like a clap of thunder from a clear sky, producing the utmost consternation among both officers and men. A halt was immediately called, and in a short time afterwards, orders came from Washington for the army to move to the Valley to his support.
The march was immediately commenced, and on Monday, the 25th of May, they had reached the vicinity of Culpeper Court-House, when he, (the deserter) not liking the idea of being pitted against the Stonewall brigade, took French leave and came into the Confederate lines.
He states that on Friday night, 20th May, the guard over the magazine in Fredericksburg